Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affected with insomnia; sleepless, or restless in sleep: as, insomnious patients.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Restless; sleepless.

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  • adjective archaic restless; sleepless

Etymologies

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Latin insomniosus, from insomnia insomnia.

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Examples

  • From the Brain of Matty insomnious (19.01.07 12: 13 am)

    phluid61 Diary Entry phluid61 2007

  • But Darwin, happily insomnious with his vision of South America rising on swelling magma, thought this notion of collapsed lakes small thinking.

    Wired Top Stories David Dobbs 2011

  • I think I'm getting a little insomnious just watching it. akhen3sir 01.15.10 | 1: 16 PM ET

    World Hum 2010

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